Notice of Privacy Practices

The Parkway Practice
Effective September 10, 2026

Your Information. Your Rights. Our Responsibilities.

This notice describes how health information about you may be used and disclosed, how you can get access to this information, and your privacy rights. Please review it carefully.

Your Rights

You have the right to:

  • Inspect or obtain a paper or electronic copy of health information in your designated record set, subject to applicable legal limits.

  • Ask us to correct health information you believe is incorrect or incomplete. We may deny the request in some circumstances, but we will explain the reason in writing.

  • Request that we contact you in a specific way or at a specific location, such as by a particular phone number or email address. We will accommodate reasonable requests.

  • Ask us to limit certain uses or disclosures of your health information. We are not always required to agree. If you pay in full out of pocket for a service and ask us not to disclose information about that service to your health plan for payment or health-care operations, we will honor the request unless disclosure is required by law.

  • Request an accounting of certain disclosures of your health information for the six years before your request. Certain disclosures, including many made for treatment, payment, or health-care operations, are not included.

  • Receive a paper copy of this notice at any time, even if you agreed to receive it electronically.

  • Have an authorized personal representative exercise your privacy rights when that person has legal authority to act for you.

  • Complain if you believe your privacy rights have been violated. You will not be retaliated against for filing a complaint.

Your Choices

For certain health information, you may tell us your preferences about what we share. When applicable, you may ask us to share information with family members, friends, or others involved in your care or payment for your care. In an emergency or when you cannot tell us your preference, we may share information when we determine that doing so is in your best interest and is permitted by law.

We will obtain your written authorization for uses or disclosures that require authorization under applicable law, including most uses and disclosures for marketing and any sale of protected health information. You may revoke an authorization in writing, except to the extent we have already acted in reliance on it.

How We May Use and Disclose Your Information

Treatment. We may use and share your health information to provide, coordinate, or manage your counseling and, when permitted, to consult or coordinate with other professionals involved in your care.

Payment. We may use and disclose health information for payment-related activities. The Parkway Practice is currently private pay; if you request a superbill or other documentation for possible out-of-network reimbursement, that documentation may include information required by your insurer.

Health-care operations. We may use and share health information to operate the practice, improve care, conduct clinical supervision and appropriate professional consultation, manage records and technology, perform administrative functions, and meet legal and professional obligations.

Business associates. We may disclose health information to vendors or service providers that perform functions for the practice when permitted by HIPAA and subject to appropriate contractual privacy and security safeguards.

Required or permitted by law. We may use or disclose health information when required or permitted by applicable law, including certain public-health, health-oversight, judicial or administrative, law-enforcement, workers’ compensation, and safety-related purposes. Additional protections may apply to mental-health or other specially protected records.

Preventing or reducing a serious threat. When permitted or required by law, we may disclose information when reasonably necessary to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to the health or safety of a person or the public.

Abuse or neglect. We may report suspected abuse or neglect when reporting is required or permitted by applicable law.

Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Information

The Parkway Practice provides mental-health counseling and will comply with applicable federal and Michigan privacy protections that impose greater limits on the use or disclosure of certain records.

HIPAA-covered providers that create or maintain substance use disorder (SUD) patient records protected by 42 CFR Part 2 must provide the privacy information required for those records. The Parkway Practice is not representing in this notice that it is a federally assisted Part 2 program. If the practice creates or maintains records that are subject to Part 2, those records will be handled in accordance with applicable Part 2 requirements, including any authorization or redisclosure protections that apply.

Our Responsibilities

  • We are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of protected health information.

  • We will notify affected individuals as required by law if a breach occurs that may have compromised the privacy or security of their information.

  • We must follow the duties and privacy practices described in the notice currently in effect.

  • We will not use or disclose your health information other than as described in this notice unless you authorize us in writing or another use or disclosure is permitted or required by law.

  • We may change this notice and the privacy practices described in it. Changes may apply to information we already have as well as information we receive in the future. The current notice will be available upon request and on the practice website.

Electronic Services and Client Portal

The Parkway Practice uses electronic systems to provide telehealth, maintain records, communicate, schedule appointments, and perform practice operations. Reasonable privacy and security safeguards are used, including business associate agreements when required. Clients may use the Sessions Health client portal for appropriate scheduling, forms, records requests, and practice communications.

Minors and Personal Representatives

When a parent, legal guardian, or other person is legally authorized to act as a client’s personal representative, that person may exercise privacy rights to the extent provided by applicable law. Special rules may apply to adolescent records and to services for which a minor may lawfully consent. The Parkway Practice will evaluate requests for access or disclosure in accordance with applicable Michigan and federal law.

Questions or Complaints

For questions about this notice, requests to exercise your privacy rights, or complaints about The Parkway Practice’s privacy practices, contact:

Privacy Contact: Christina Armbruster, MA, SCL, LLPC
The Parkway Practice
7750 Grosse Ile Parkway
Grosse Ile, MI 48138
Phone: 734-288-7079
Email: Christina@theparkwaypractice.com

You may also file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights. The Parkway Practice will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.